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  2. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  3. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Narrative film is usually thought of in terms of fiction but it may also assemble stories from filmed reality, as in some documentary film, but narrative film may also use animation. Narrative history is a genre of factual historical writing that uses chronology as its framework (as opposed to a thematic treatment of a historical subject).

  4. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Nonlinear narrative – a story whose plot does not conform to conventional chronology, causality, and/or perspective. Novel – a long, written narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

  5. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, the first-person narrative is often used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together. One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective principal assistant, the "Watson", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr. Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ...

  6. Novel - Wikipedia

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    Fictional narrative: Fictionality is most commonly cited as distinguishing novels from historiography. However this can be a problematic criterion. Throughout the early modern period authors of historical narratives would often include inventions rooted in traditional beliefs in order to embellish a passage of text or add credibility to an ...

  7. Epic (genre) - Wikipedia

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    Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its roots in ancient poetry (epic poems such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey).

  8. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The literary theory of Russian Formalism in the early 20th century divided a narrative into two elements: the fabula (фа́була) and the syuzhet (сюже́т). A fabula is the chronology of the fictional world, whereas a syuzhet is a perspective or plot thread of those events. Formalist followers eventually translated the fabula/syuzhet ...

  9. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Leitwortstil, which means "leading word style" in German, [7] is the repetition of a wording, often with a theme, in a narrative to make sure it catches the reader's attention. [8] An example of a leitwortstil is the recurring phrase, "So it goes", in Kurt Vonnegut 's novel Slaughterhouse-Five .